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1787 ALMANAC

MILITIA OF JAMAICA

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Throughout the following Lists, those marked * are Members of the Council, and those marked with this mark @ are Members of Assembly.

KINGSTON REGIMENT

Two Battalions

FIRST BATTALION

Colonel, Jeremiah Barton
1st Lieut. Col., Thomas Cockburn @
2d Lieut. Colonel, Jon. Mallard
1st Major, George Cuthbert
2d Major, Thomas Paxton

CAPTAINS

Angus Macbean
John McLean
David Duncomb
Robert Donaldson
John Jaques
Ralph Fisher
Thomas Myers
William Hannay
James Worsfold
John James Digges LaTouche
Charles Mitchell
William Cunninghame
Thomas Berry
Paul Phipps junior
Richard Shea

LIEUTENANTS

Patrick Ballantine
William Merchant
William Mitchell
Andrew Johnstone
Robert Rainford
William Dillworth
George Law
Denniss Pinnock
Jasper Farmer
Robert Bogle
James Austin
William F_oss
William Liegh
Stewart Bruce
Faulkner Bristow
Sion Kendall
Charles Blest
Archibald Sinclair

ENSIGNS

William Paterson
John Sleater
Isaac Munt
John Aug. Bryce
John Racster
Thomas Leigh
William Holgate
George Seddon
George Shaw
John Gutzmer

Adjutant and Ensign, Elisha Coakley
Quartermaster and Ensign, Samuel Barton
Surgeon, Richard Trower

TWO COMPANIES OF ARTILLERY

Captains, Archibald Galbraith and Robert Ewart
Lieutenants, Richard Henderson, William McMurdo, John Rutherford, James Taylor


ST. ANDREW'S REGIMENT

Colonel, Honorable Paul Phipps @
1st Major, William Peete @
2d Major, Thomas Bourke

CAPTAINS

Thomas Carpenter
Henry Keating
John Armstrong
T. S. Kuckahn

LIEUTENANTS

Z. B. Manby
Edward Frearson
John Woolfrys
David Littlejohn

ENSIGNS

John Phipps

Surgeon, Robert Spalding
Surgeon's Mate, Alexander Maitland


PORT ROYAL REGIMENT

Colonel, Thomas Denniss
Lieut. Colonel, Edwin Denniss
Majors, George Davis, Charles Austin

CAPTAINS

John S. Somersett
Daniel Salt
Philip Denniss
John Penny

Captain-Lieutenant, William Ennis Webb

LIEUTENANTS

Robert Jackson
William Fort. Harris
John Horlock
David Thomas
Charles Ramsay
Robert Law

ENSIGNS

Daniel Moore Digby Denniss
John James Vidall

Adjutant, Henry James
Surgeon, Moses S. Morao


ST. THOMAS IN THE EAST AND ST. DAVID'S REGIMENT

Colonel, Honourable Nathaniel Beckford @
Lieutenant-Colonels, James Lindsay, James Murray
Majors, James McGibbon, Robert Paterson

CAPTAINS

William Paterson
R. D. Panton
Robert Logan
James Henderson
Nicol McGregor
James Betty

LIEUTENANTS

Alexander Cameron
George Robinson
Gideon Murray
Lachlan Grant
John Brown
Jacob Carruthers
Joseph Geohagen
John Blake
Colin Donaldson
James Tagart
John Scott

ENSIGNS

George Scott
William Charles Mitchell
Robert Grant
William Jordan
John Hamilton

Adjutant, Angus Campbell
Deputy Judge Advocate, James Renny
Surgeons, James McKay, John Currie

ARTILLERY

Captain,W. White
First Lieut., James Morris
Second Lieut. and Fireworker, George Small


PORTLAND REGIMENT

Colonel, John Sutton
Lieutenant-Colonel, Thomas Trump Tyrrel
Major, John Shellet Downer

CAPTAINS

William Downer
Edward Wilson
Samuel Brown

LIEUTENANTS

William And. Orgill
Thomas H. Phillips
William Valentine
Henry Passley
William Van T. Tyrrell
John Crawley

ENSIGNS

Robert Downer
Andrew Passley
John Sutton Minot

Adjutant, Andrew Passley
Quartermaster, Robert Graham
Surgeon, William Proctor

ARTILLERY

Captain, William Burke
First Lieut., Robert Wills
Second Lieut., Colin McPherson


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